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Marwan Kenawy

Marwan Kenawy is an Egyptian serial entrepreneur who co-founded Lucky, a Cairo-based consumer credit fintech, in 2019 with Ayman Essawy and Momtaz Moussa, and is chief executive of Dsquares.

Mary Jane Irwin

Mary Jane Irwin is an American computer scientist, Emerita Evan Pugh University Professor at Penn State, who anticipated power as a central chip design constraint and shaped the EDA industry.

Masahiro Suemitsu (SPACECOOL株式会社)

Masahiro Suemitsu (末光真大) is a Japanese engineer-entrepreneur who co-founded SPACECOOL, a Tokyo climate-tech company spun out of Osaka Gas in 2021, joining as CTO and becoming CEO in 2024.

Masdar

Masdar, formally the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, is the UAE's state-owned renewable energy company, established in Abu Dhabi in 2006 and jointly owned by TAQA, Mubadala, and ADNOC.

Mathias Hedlund

Mathias Hedlund, born 1970, is a Swedish business executive who co-founded the flight-booking company Etraveli Group in 2000 and has led it as chief executive since 2014.

Matias Muchnick

Matias Muchnick is a Chilean entrepreneur who co-founded NotCo in 2015 and serves as its CEO; the company became the first Chilean unicorn, valued at US$1.5 billion in 2021.

matsuri technologies

matsuri technologies is a Tokyo-based vacation rental (minpaku) operation company founded by Keita Yoshida in 2016, managing about 4,000 lodging facilities across Japan through its software-centered StayX model.

Matthew Lorber

Matthew Lorber, also known as Matt Lorber, was an American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the semiconductor company Analog Devices in 1965 and later founded Copley Controls.

Matthew Miau

Matthew Miau, also known as Miao Feng-chiang (苗丰强), is a Taiwanese business executive who chairs MiTAC Holdings; a former Intel engineer, he founded MiTAC International in 1982.

Matthew Scullion

Matthew Scullion is a British technology entrepreneur who co-founded Matillion, a cloud data productivity software company, in 2011 and led it as chief executive until August 2026.

Mauro Levi D'Ancona

Mauro Levi D'Ancona is a Brazilian insurance executive and co-founder and CEO of 180 Seguros, a São Paulo insurtech founded in 2020 after roughly five years in Nubank's finance area.

Max Junestrand

Max Junestrand is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Legora, formerly Leya, a legal artificial intelligence company, in Stockholm in 2023, and serves as its chief executive officer.

Max Li

Max Li is an Australian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments company Airwallex in Melbourne in 2015 with Jack Zhang, after payment frustrations at the coffee shop they ran together.

Max Lytvyn

Max Lytvyn (Макс Литвин) is a Ukrainian-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded Grammarly in 2009 with Alex Shevchenko and Dmytro Lider, after selling his earlier plagiarism-detection company MyDropBox to Blackboard in 2008.

Max Palevsky

Max Palevsky (1924–2010) was an American computer-industry entrepreneur who founded Scientific Data Systems in California in 1961, sold it to Xerox in 1969, and helped finance Intel.

Max Schaefer

Max Schaefer is an American video game developer who co-founded Blizzard North in 1993, worked on the Diablo series, and later founded Runic Games, maker of Torchlight.

Max Welling

Max Welling is a machine-learning researcher, professor at the University of Amsterdam, and co-founder and CTO of CuspAI, an AI materials startup valued at $2.6 billion in 2026.

MaxAB

MaxAB is an Egyptian B2B e-commerce company founded in Cairo in 2018 by Belal El-Megharbel and Mohamed Ben Halim, supplying groceries to traditional retailers through an app.

Maxim Integrated

Maxim Integrated Products, also called Maxim Integrated, was an American semiconductor company founded in 1983 that made analog chips and was acquired by Analog Devices in 2021.

Maxim Kurnikov

Maxim Kurnikov is an Israeli software entrepreneur known as a co-founder of Echo, a Haifa-based Y Combinator Winter 2023 startup building an AI sales co-pilot for B2B founders.

Maximilian Bittner

Maximilian Bittner, also known as Max Bittner, is an e-commerce executive who founded Lazada in 2012 and led the Singapore marketplace until Alibaba installed Lucy Peng in 2018.

Maximiliano Casal

Maximiliano Casal is a Uruguayan software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the digital freight forwarder Nowports in 2018 and later returned as its chief executive officer.

Maximilien Levesque

Maximilien Levesque is a French quantum physicist and co-founder and CEO of Aqemia, a Paris drug discovery company that uses deep physics algorithms and generative AI to design therapeutic molecules.

Maximl Labs

Maximl Labs is an Indian SaaS company founded in 2016 in Pune, building a Connected Worker platform for frontline operations in oil and gas, steel, and chemicals.

Maxtor Corporation

Maxtor Corporation was an American hard disk drive manufacturer founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, growing into one of the world's largest drive makers before Seagate acquired it in 2006.

Maxwell Zhou

Maxwell Zhou (Zhou Guang, 周光) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the autonomous driving company DeepRoute.ai, established in Shenzhen in 2019 after co-founding Roadstar.ai in 2017.

Mazen AlDarrab

Mazen AlDarrab is a Saudi technology entrepreneur who co-founded Zid, the Riyadh-based e-commerce enablement platform, in 2017, led its commercial growth, and became its chief executive officer in July 2025.

Medadom

Medadom is a French teleconsultation company founded in 2017, offering no-appointment GP consultations from booths in pharmacies, and the first approved société de téléconsultation in 2024.

Medal.tv

Medal.tv is a gaming clip-capture and sharing platform founded by game developers including Pim de Witte, whose recorder saves the last moments of gameplay as shareable clips.

Medidata

Medidata is a New York company founded in 1999 that provides cloud-based software for clinical trials, best known for Rave EDC and owned by Dassault Systèmes since 2019.